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Deborah Becker ( W '94) has been hired by the Peace Corps to serve as basic education Technical trainer in South Africa. She will design, develop, and deliver training for Peace Corps volunteers who will be working as teacher trainers and advisors to support schools and teachers. She will be in South Africa for 4 1/2 months as part of the Short Term Assistance Unit. She welcomes any email from those who are curious about South Africa or working for the Peace Corps (deb_becker@yahoo.com).
Gwen Blase (W '98) is teaching 4th grade at an international school in southern Germany.
Clara Brown (S '91) received her Ed.D. in Special Education with a Bilingual Special Education concentration this past Spring from The George Washington University. The title of her dissertation is The Equity of the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program for Limited English Proficient Students: A Study of Third Graders.
Currently she is teaching a Language Assessment course at American University, and is teaching part-time elementary ESOL in Montgomery County. In the past, she has taught at Wheaton High School and John F. Kennedy High School, both in Montgomery County.
Her recent presentations include:
Implementing Alternative Assessments for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in General Education. Presented at the 2001 Annual Convention of the Council for Exceptional Children in Kansas City, MO and at the 2001 30th Annual Conference of the National Association of Bilingual Education in Phoenix, AZ.
George Bunch (S '96) recently had an article, "Beyond Sheltered Language Instruction: Rethinking Conditions for Academic Language Development," published in the Summer/Autumn 2001 issue of TESOL Journal. George, a Ph.D. student at Stanford University was first author, along with Percy Abram, Rachel Lotan, and his advisor at Stanford, Guadalupe Valdes.
Matthew Burrows (W '99) has been teaching in Namibia. The classes he has taught include Research Projects in ESOL and Second Language Acquisition and Methodologies.
Erika Chapman (S '98), along with her husband,
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has started her third year teaching in Ifrane, Morocco. She teaches at a small, private, American style school where she is the only ESOL teacher. She teaches grades 1-10 in classes of 2-10 students.
Genevieve Douyon (S '89) is living in Haiti where she has been teaching English at all levels, interpreting, and writing children's books.
Maryland TESOL and WATESOL will be co-sponsoring the TESOL 2003 Convention here in Baltimore. Myles Hoenig (F '83) of Prince George's County Public Schools and Noella Kim (S '00) of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland will serve as the local co-chairs.
Elizabeth Holden-Wagenheim (S '99) teaches ESL at Prince George's Community College. She is currently serving as president of Maryland TESOL. She was married in May 2001 and has added "Wagenheim" to her name.
Natalie Jansorn (S '99) has been working with The National Network of Partnerships Schools at Johns Hopkins University and was recently promoted to State and District Coordinator. She and her husband recently welcomed their first son, Jackson Aroon, into the family.
Jong-Duk Kim (F '99) is currently the Assistant Manager at the Language Research Center of ITN Broadcasting Co., LTD. in Seoul, Korea.
Over the summer, Myung-hee Ko taught Korean-American children math, English, Korean, and social studies at a local church. This Fall, she started teaching at Riverdale Elementary School in Prince George's County.
Sunyoung Lim (Sum '01) is teaching various EFL classes for Woosong Information College in Daejon, Korea. Woosong consists of one university, two colleges, one institute, as well as kindergarten through high school. Sunyoung is teaching college-level, adult, and middle school conversation, as well as a children's class.
Robin Loube (S '96) is currently working at Ridgecrest Elementary School in Prince George's County. Half of her day is spent teaching ESOL to first and second graders. The other half is spent teaching Reading Recovery, a one-on-one tutoring program for the very lowest first effectively influence legislation and lobby the government for increased school funding, smaller class sizes, and more teacher exchanges to the U.S.
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